Listening Post

Creative Work
Author: 
Mark H. Hansen
Ben Rubin
Year: 
2002
Archive URL: 
Listening Post: Science Museum Group, UK
URL: 
Ear Studio: Listening Post [Dead Link]
Listening Post, Real-Time Data Responsive Environment 2001
Language: 
English
Publication Type: 
Exhibited at gallery or event
Installation
Presented at conference or festival
Event: 
Reading Digital Literature
Record Status: 
Approved record
Tags: 
found textnetworked audiovisual installationvoice synthesizerdata sonificationweb harvested worktext stream
Description (in English): 

Listening Post is an art installation by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, and simultaneously displayed across a suspended grid of more than two hundred small electronic screens.

Listening Post cycles through a series of six movements, each a different arrangement of visual, aural, and musical elements, each with it’s own data processing logic.

Dissociating the communication from its conventional on-screen presence, Listening Post is a visual and sonic response to the content, magnitude, and immediacy of virtual communication.

(Source: Post by Ben Rubin on EAR Studio website, no longer available.)

Listening Post was displayed internationally between 2002-2006 and is now part of the collections of The London Science Museum, London, UK and The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, USA.

Teaching Resource that references this work:

Resource Author Teaching Resource Type Year
Digital Humanities in Practice (DIKULT 207, Fall 2012) Scott Rettberg, Jill Walker Rettberg, Leonardo L. Flores, Patricia Tomaszek Syllabus 2012
Digital Humanities in Practice (DIKULT 207, UiB, Fall 2013) Patricia Tomaszek, Scott Rettberg Syllabus 2013

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Critical writing that references this work:

Title Author Year
Digital Art and Meaning: Reading Kinetic Poetry, Text Machines, Mapping Art, and Interactive Installations Roberto Simanowski 2011
Digital Literature: Theoretical and Aesthetic Reflections Luciana Gattass 2011
Digitale Medien in der Erlebnisgesellschaft. Kunst, Kultur, Utopien Roberto Simanowski 2008
I like IRC & SMS Rita Raley 2008
List(en)ing Post Rita Raley 2009
Post-Chapter Dialoge, Raley and Ricardo Rita Raley, Francisco J. Ricardo 2009
Swimming against the data stream: plot, polyphony and heteroglossia in data-­driven writing Chris Rodley 2014
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